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It’s true what they say about bona fide stars like Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones — they could indeed hold us spellbound simply by reading the New York telephone book. Not…
The brewing Broadway musical version of “Soul Train” has found its conductor, and it’s Anthony Zuiker, the creator of the “CSI” franchise. TV procedural maven Z…
Playwright Danai Gurira — also the actress best known as Michonne on “The Walking Dead” — delivers politics with a passion in “Eclipsed,” a searing drama …
Looks like the rhythm has already gotcha, Broadway — at least to judge from the first week of sales at “On Your Feet!,” the bio-musical about Gloria Estefan and Emili…
Mobile ticketing app TodayTix is moving west, with the company expanding into the San Francisco Bay area after setting up home bases in New York and in London. With San Francisco launching n…
John Doyle, the Broadway director who’s staging the upcoming revival of “The Color Purple” and who won a Tony Award for his production of “Sweeney Todd,” has be…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's spectacle-oriented production of "The Tempest," seen in prior versions at American Repertory Theater and a couple of other regionals, achieves what many staging…
The musical adaptation of “American Psycho,” starring Benjamin Walker as murderous protagonist Patrick Bateman, has locked in its Broadway home, nabbing the Gerald Schoenfeld The…
Too bad Pope Francis couldn't have capped his U.S. visit with the revival of "The Sound of Music" at the Ahmanson Theater. The Holy Father would surely have been impressed, not just by the r…
"The Wars of the Roses" was a landmark production back in 1963 — one for the history books. Compressing the three parts of "Henry VI" and "Richard III" into a streamlined trilogy, and …
“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, experimental puppeteer Basil Twist and set designer Mimi Lien are among the names on the list of 2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellows, each…
The Old Vic has a new head in Matthew Warchus (“Matilda,” “God of Carnage”), and he's already gone one better than his predecessor. Where Kevin Spacey started his ten…
San Francisco’s Curran Theater, the 1,650-seat venue that has hosted Broadway tryouts for shows including “Wicked” and “Beautiful,” will get an extensive ren…
How's this for irony? In the middle of the Swinging Sixties, Great Britain abolished hanging. On Nov. 9, 1965, it stopped swinging. Great news for progressives; less so for Harry Wade, the n…
There isn't another play quite like "Pomona." Alistair McDowall is one of a batch of young British writers chucking dramatic form up against the wall. His debut, "Brilliant Adventures," p…
At century's end, director-choreographer Susan Stroman and librettist John Weidman developed three stories-in-dance to preexisting recordings, and the resulting show,"Contact," glided away w…
In the final week on the boards, the Broadway revival of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” went out with a bang — especially compared to the rest of the Street, where a lot of in…
Lucas Hnath’s soul-searching drama, “The Christians,” grabbed the eyeballs at the 2014 Humana Festival. Playwrights Horizons showed faith by opening its season with the…
Broadway saw the inklings of the coming fall rush last week, as previewing musical “Spring Awakening” (pictured above) was joined by Clive Owen in “Old Times” and Sam…
Producers of the Broadway musical “Amazing Grace,” which has struggled with poor sales since it began performances over the summer, have decided to throw in the towel at last, po…
The Broadway community turned out in force Monday to honor Roger Rees at a memorial for the Tony-winning Welsh actor at the New Amsterdam Theater. Actors Bebe Neuwirth, Chita Rivera, Sherie …
Triptyk Studios, the production company involved in the upcoming Broadway musical based on Archie comics, has tapped longtime industry veteran Elie Landau to fill the post of executive produ…
Broadway producer and general manager Stuart Thompson has teamed with his longtime associate David Turner to form Thompson Turner Productions, with the upcoming New York staging of London hi…
Broadway producers have teamed with Sean Hayes’ Hazy Mills Prods. to develop a new play about the Hollywood actor, composer and pianist Oscar Levant, with Hayes in mind to star. ItR…
“Hand to God,” the gleefully dark Broadway comedy about a boy and his potentially satanic hand puppet, will close in January before opening on London’s West End in Fe…
